Aaron Brown has formally punched his price tag to his fourth Olympic Video games, profitable the boys’s 200m ultimate in Montreal on Sunday afternoon. That is Brown’s twelfth Canadian nationwide dash name in his occupation.
Brown ran a wind-aided 20.09 seconds to win by way of a vital margin forward of his 4x100m relay teammate Brendon Rodney, who was once 2d in 20.34 seconds. Olympic champion Andre De Grasse didn’t input the boys’s 200m at Trials, given an Athletics Canada coaches’ exemption, that means he’s going to be named to the group at a later date (most probably July 2).
The 32-year-old first represented Canada 12 years in the past, competing within the London 2012 Olympics as a 20-year-old. Brown would be the handiest male athlete at the Canadian monitor and box group in Paris who has gave the impression at 4 Olympic Video games.
Sunday’s win in Montreal was once emotional for Brown, together with his folks, spouse, and two youngsters cheering him on from the grandstands at Claude-Robillard. Brown donned his signature burgundy Nike scarf with a timeline of vital moments of his lifestyles pictured on it.
What a second for Aaron Brown’s (@KingsleySC) circle of relatives.
His folks, spouse and two youngsters have been in Montreal to observe him protected a place to his fourth Olympics.
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Rodney and De Grasse shall be nominated to the Canadian Olympic group within the 200m match subsequent week, each up to now having the 200m usual of 20.16 seconds.
Audrey Leduc pulls off dash double in Montreal
It was once some other weekend to bear in mind for Canadian sprinter Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., as she pulled off the ladies’s dash double in Montreal on Sunday, profitable the ladies’s 200m in a wind-aided 22.71 seconds (+2.7 m/s). Leduc will constitute Crew Canada in Paris in 3 occasions: the ladies’s 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay.
Canada’s quickest sprinter Audrey Leduc’s unconventional trail to the Olympics
There was once a photograph end for 2d and 3rd within the ladies’s 200m between newly topped Canadian 400m champ Toronto’s Zoe Sherar and Ottawa’s Jacqueline Madogo. After evaluation, Sherar was once given 2d position by way of three-thousandths of a 2d in 22.944.
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